Menin drags reps from Elon Musk's SpaceX for 'sexualized' images created with Grok
New York Post • • business
Key Points:
- New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin confronted a SpaceX AI policy leader over the company's Grok AI generating indecent, sexualized images of her despite claims of strict safeguards against such content.
- Menin demonstrated AI-generated explicit photos of herself created within seconds by Grok, challenging SpaceX's assertion that the model prevents sexualized associations of real people.
- SpaceX's Gabriela Castillo Madrid acknowledged the issue but could not explain the specific incident, promising to have the safety team investigate.
- Whistleblower Devin Kim revealed that SpaceX had internally accepted "tasteful nudity" as a goal for AI outputs, raising further concerns about the company's content controls.
- The City Council is considering legislation requiring AI systems to include a "kill switch" or human override, following hearings with major AI companies about the risks of unregulated AI development.
